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ROSICRUCIAN PHILOSOPHY
the sights and the scenes of the Desire World, there is very
little information at hand concerning the inside of the
earth, for it is found by ordinary clairvoyants that if they
attempt to enter the earth there is something like the same
effect as when a man hurls himself against a wall. That
is because the earth is the body of a great spirit and that
spirit may not be approached in its inner recesses, except
by the path of initiation. There are nine layers of vary-
ing thickness in the earth around the core, which forms, as
it were, a tenth part, and the Lesser Mysteries are the gate
which leads to that innermost core. There are nine degrees
in the Lesser Mysteries, and in each degree the candidate
becomes able to penetrate into the corresponding layer of
the earth, while the tenth initiation belongs to the Greater
Mysteries where there are four divisions. The first teaches
all that can be known by man in the Earth Period; the
second of the great initiations would bring him the knowl-
edge that will be gained by all humanity at the end of the
Jupiter Period ; the third of the great initiations would
bring him the wisdom attained by humanity at the end of
the Venus Period, and the fourth would end his evolution
in the present scheme. He would have the same standing
as humanity will have at the end of the Vulcan Period.
Then he will know all that the earth will contain in this
embodiment and its future manifestations. The Lesser
Mysteries will alo have taught him the evolution he went
through in the three periods previous to our present Earth
Period. It is these secrets which are locked up in the
earth, until man has opened the door himself in the proper
manner, so that no spirit, whether in the body or discarnate,
can see what is inside the earth until the gate of initiation
has opened its latent faculties.